Day: August 4, 2021

Alderman angry only one Hispanic is among nine listed for promotion to CPD lieutenant – Chicago Sun-Times*

“It’s a slap in the face. We’re talking about building a bench for leadership within CPD. Here’s an opportunity to meritoriously promote some more Hispanics to make it more reflective of the city. And then, we get the short end of the stick. I’m tired of it,” Ald. Gilbert Villegas said. “I’m frustrated. Diversity and equity is not working for us. We need parity.”

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How Condo Buildings End – Slate

Stories like that of River City’s construction and evolution from apartments to condos and back to apartments make Chicago the perfect place to understand how condos usually meet their end—not in a pile of rubble, but in a buyout that leaves some owners feeling lucky and others feeling betrayed.

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Editorial: Businesses in Chicago are insisting on vaccinated customers. Good. No counterproductive government mandate needed. – Chicago Tribune*

“Numerous employers now are insisting that their employees get vaccinated before they return to the office. If you don’t want to comply, you are free to work elsewhere…But once you get politicians insisting everyone takes a vaccine that the government itself has yet to fully approve, that’s sure to cause the kind of counter-reaction that has led to broad swaths of the independent-minded populace of this country going without vaccinations, to the detriment of us all.”

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Republicans Demand Promised Documents, Renew Call For Criminal Probe In Deadly Vets’ Home COVID Outbreak – NPR Illinois

The top attorney in Gov. Pritzker’s office last month blamed the two-month delay in responding to LaSalle-related document requests from a House Republican member on the fact the member sent his formal demand via the U.S. Postal Service to Pritzker’s statehouse office, which also receives a high volume of mail from the general public.

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America’s ‘Re-Education’ Camps – RealClear

“But we have our own, milder, version of “re-education” camps that indoctrinate, all for a supposed good, evolved cause. We call our re-education camps public schools.

Here is one example, from Evanston, right outside of Chicago, of what first and second graders are now “taught” in school.”

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